Afflictor: Thinking Ron Paul's South Carolina ground team is doing great work.
- 3 Recent Films: Certified Copy, Another Earth, The Arbor.
- Old Print Articles: Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit, after the Stanford White murder (1917, 1926) + Astronomer Richard A. Proctor dies from yellow fever (1888).
- Featured Videos: Malcolm X defends his name change (1963) + Two MLK videos + Muhammad Ali saves suicidal Vietnam vet (1981) + Pauline Kael interview (1982) + Clint Eastwood interview (1974) + Beck interviewed by a computer voice (1998) + Drew Berry animates the molecular world + Michael Jackson interview (1971) + “Thriller” performed by robots + Michio Kaku explains quantum computing + Buster Keaton on What’s My Line? (1957).
- Recently Posted on NYC’s Craigslist: I’m not selling my kidneys or sperm just yet + I wonder if they sell mace at Trader Joe’s + I’ve really stopped trying.
- If you think all Olympic athletes are tested for PEDs, you’d be wrong.
- Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru talked to Playboy in 1963.
- NYC Police Commissioner Theodore Roosevelt makes vice much worse.
- Adam Lashinsky reveals the cultish culture of Apple.
- Adam Curtis likens the contemporary West to the 1980s Soviet Union
- 1967 ABC News report the day after three U.S. astronauts died.
- In 1893, Civil War Colonel created the gossip-page blind item.
- Technology stepped forward in 1977 with the HP-01 Wrist Instrument.
- Insight into ESPN’s enormous value to Disney.
- An experimental 1960s audio version of The Medium Is the Message.
- Good GQ article about a creepy new wave of computer hacking.
- Julian Assange explains what inspired the creation of Wikileaks.
- Farhad Manjoo argues that Internet filters may not be harmful.
- Read screenwriter John Kaye’s raucous L.A. Review of Books memoir.
- When Hollywood sued to make home video recorders illegal.
- Playwright Alfred Jarry shocked the world in 1896.
- Lenn Rockford Hann tried to do businesss with a big sneaker company.
- A 1922 Vanity Fair humor piece by eccentric composer Erik Satie.
- Michael Brooks explains superstuff.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.